June 25, 2023
My Space Exploration continues after my walk in space at the Space Museum Cosmos Hall. As mentioned in my previous post about this museum, there are two halls: Cosmos and Space Exploration, and a Space Theater. Inside each hall are different galleries showing exhibitions about Space Science and Astronomy. I felt excited walking inside, as I felt like I was walking in space, seeing the sun, planets, stars, the galaxy, moons, and others. It wasn't just a simple walk because I was learning at the same time.
After exploring the Hall of Cosmos, I went out and proceeded to another interactive space that shows visitors, especially kids, about milestones of flight from the 1970s to the modern times, information about spacecraft, power sources, planetary magneto, heliosphere, rings and moons, termination shock, and others.
There is Deep Space Challenge that allows visitors to try the exhibition and learn while doing so. This challenge, for instance, is about comparing the magnetic field strengths of Earth and Jupiter by putting the soft toy balls onto the metal chains.
After visiting this interactive space, I climbed the stairs and entered the Hall of Space Exploration.
The first part was about getting around Mars. I was greeted by an astronaut on his bent knees, seemingly on Mars. This hall also shows human in space from the past 60 years since spacecraft were sent to study every planet in the solar system.
The huge next generation space suit sealed in a glass tube, which you can see in the photo below, was another attraction in the middle of the hall, along with capsulated installations about which I was uncertain.
There are different astronaut photo booths, and I saw kids enjoying them. But what caught my attention was the astronaut that seemed to be tucked into a suspended, circular-shaped, concaved metal panel on the ceiling.
There was also a space capsule model that could fit at least three people inside. This kind of capsule saves weight with a bottom covered with a heat shield. You can check out the photo above with kids in recumbent positions on fitted seats, along with an astronaut model. It must be difficult to move inside given the limited space and position.
Some space artifacts are also displayed in this museum, and those were used by certain astronauts back in the day.
Meanwhile, this footprint belongs to the second man to land on the moon, astronaut Buzz Aldrin of Apollo II. He left this footprint during the opening of this museum in 2009.
Space exhibitions also include the lift off of space rockets, Mars rovers, and the Apollo II spacecraft and its lunar module.
The timeline of spacecraft was another attraction, which shows models of different spacecraft, space shuttles, and modular stations sent into space at different times.
This one, for instance, is the Skylab model that orbited the earth from 1973 to 1979 and was visited by three men on missions.
Models of Mir, International Space Station, Shenzou 9, Apollo Lunar Module, Sputnik I, and Atlantis are among those on display. On the other side are different space rockets from different countries. These rockets carry oxidizer and fuel so they can work in space.
There was also an exhibition hall showing Science in Space. Some experiments done in space are being shown here, like growing plants in space, and those plants were eaten by astronauts. In the middle was a digital installation of a human's muscular system.
The following are some devices used in spacecraft, like the LED light that makes astronauts sleep and awake, the cell culture chamber in space, and the nitric oxide measuring device. Meanwhile, the green suit in an upright position is a sleeping bag in space. It is where astronauts strap their bodies to be able to sleep.
This chamber contains the food in space preserved in cans and vacuumed plastic in a certain space station.
A video installation shows how astronauts work out on a space station. They use a treadmill, a weight lifting device, and a cycle machine for cardiovascular exercises. This is necessary for them since they lose muscles and bone density in a weightless space station.
You can check the video here:
Meanwhile, this chamber shows the disorientation in space. It's a digital installation projected onto the facade of the chamber that lets visitors feel what it's like inside a spacecraft. Given that I have an eye problem, this exhibition made me dizzy, so I shortly stepped out of the chamber.
Lastly, I visited the space rocket launching area where I spotted some kids operating the buttons. It gave them the impression that they were in a real rocket launch room. The screen in front shows the process and the result of the launch. It was like a game at the same time, and kids were enjoying it.
That concludes my space exploration at the Space Museum. I truly had so much fun while learning some information about Space Science and Astronomy. After my exploration, I spotted Passage at the end of the hall and took a look at the displayed souvenir items. You can check my Market Friday post about it.
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